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Biography

Arik Elfassy, MSc, has over 20 years of pharmaceutical research experience all within the Vaccine Research and Development Unit at Pfizer Inc. Arik was responsible for developing many novel immunoassays on various platforms in support of the various vaccine programs. Most recently, he was responsible for developing a diagnostic assay for the detection of C. difficile toxins in stool samples of patients suspected of CDI. This work was essential to the vaccine program and is currently an endpoint assay in a critical Phase 3 efficacy study.
Prior to joining Pfizer, Arik earned his Master’s in Molecular Biology at the Université de Montréal where he worked on the optimization of adenoviral vectors for gene therapy.

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Microbiology and Immunology

Organizing Committee - Pharmaceutical Microbiology 2018

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Prof Matin pursued his PhD in Microbiology from University of California in 1969. He worked as a lecturer, scientific officer before joining Stanford. He currently holds various academic appointments at Stanford including the department of Microbiology and Immunology.

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Petra Perner is the founder and director of the Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Under her leadership the institute developed to one of the leading institutes in basic and applied research in computer vision, data mining, machine learning, case-based reasoning and image databases.
She received a diploma degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and a PhD degree in computer science in 1985. In 1989 she finished her habilitation entitled “A Methodology for the Development of Knowledge-Based Image-Interpretation Systems”.
Under her guidance highly qualified national and international personnel got trained in the above mentioned high-technology fields through research projects and education programs. The tutorial on Data Mining (www.data-mining-tutorial.de) is a recognized tutorial among the domain experts and is especially designed for training industrial people on hot topics in data mining. She gave courses on Data Mining and Image Interpretation at different universities in various countries.
She has been the project leader and principal investigator of various national and international research projects for which she received several research awards. Her projects are marked by the fact that they tie together high-class research with the aspect of the economic application.
She is frequently invited as a guest professor for knowledge-based image inspection systems by several national and international institutes and companies.
She supervised the foundation of two high-technology companies named ibai-solutions (www.ibai-solutions.de) and ImageInterpret GmbH (www.imageinterpret.de) whose teams received 4 distinct business prices for transferring image-interpretation and data-mining methods to industry.
She was the principal founder and chairwoman of the Technical Committee “Machine Learning and Data Mining”. She is the chairwoman of three distinct conferences in Machine Learning, Data Mining and High-Content Analysis of Signals and Images called MLDM (www.mldm.de), ICDM (www.data-mining.forum.de) and MDA (www.mda-signals.de).
Presently she is working on various medical, chemical and biomedical applications, information management applications, technical diagnosis and e-commerce applications. Most of the developments are protected by legal patent rights and can be licenced to qualified industries.
She has published numerous scientific publications and patents and is frequently requested as pleanary speaker in distinct research fields as well as across disciplinces.
Her vision is to build intelligent flexible and robust data-interpreting systems that are inspired by the human case-based reasoning process.

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Ivan Kocić has completed his PhD at the age of 32 years from Medical University of Gdansk and postdoctoral studies from Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan . He is the head of Department of Pharmacology, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland and consultant in clinical pharmacology in Pomerania region (northern Poland). . He has published more than 45 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

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Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor
In 1969 he graduated from Yerevan State University with major in biochemistry.
The most important outcomes of the scientific results:
He has developed and proposed methods for diagnosis and differential diagnosis of diseases, for hemoblastosis prognosis, diagnosis and therapy methods. "Petamcin-A" is a medicine created by him which is introduced in practical medicine.
Professor P. A. Ghazaryan has published 441 scientific papers and two textbooks (Moscow), two monographs (2012, Germany). He holds a number of patents. P.A. Ghazaryan headed 26 candidate and supervised 4 doctoral theses. Since 1975 he is a member of Specialized Council 042 on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and since 2005 he is deputy chief editor of the scientific journal "Blood". Since 2010 he is editor-in-response of "Pharma” 'scientific-practical journal. In 2007 he became a member of the American Association of Chemists. Then he was elected a full member (academician) of the Academies of Natural Sciences of RF (2008), of the Medical and Technical Sciences of RF (2009), the European Natural Sciences (Germany, 2010). Since 2012 he is the reviewer of the American Journal of Biochemistry, the Clinical Medicine and Diagnostics, and the American Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences.

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Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at the Australian College of ACK and Western Sydney University, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences.

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Jorge is a Senior Nonclinical Toxicologist involved in Pharmacovigilance/Cosmetovigilance to support the efficacy, safety and well-use of medicines of the Company. More than 15 years of working experience in nonclinical toxicology and safety assessment in Pharma Company and Contract research Organization

Organizing Committee - Clinical Microbiology 2018

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Henry M. Sobell completed his studies at Brooklyn Technical High School (1948-1952), Columbia College (1952-1956), and the University of Virginia School of Medicine (1956-1960). Instead of practicing clinical medicine, he then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to join Professor Alexander Rich in the Department of Biology (1960-1965), where, as a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, he learned the technique of single crystal X-ray analysis. He then joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Rochester, having been subsequently jointly appointed to both the Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics departments (the latter at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry), becoming a full tenured Professor in both departments.

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Dr. Iwona Beech is an internationally recognized expert in the field of biofilm-influenced corrosion and biofouling. She has over 24 years of research experience in studying fundamental and applied aspects of biocorrosion of metallic and biodeteriotration of non-metallic materials in both freshwater and marine environments and an extensive history of collaborations with Academia and Industry worldwide, including oil, gas and shipping industries and the navy.

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Uses of immuno and molecular biology techniques and advanced mass spectrometry methods to understand the importance of biofilm community structure and involvement of bacterial metabolites

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Ananda M. Chakrabarty, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. While working at the Research & Development Center at General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York, he was awarded the ‘Scientist of the Year’ award in 1975 by Industrial Research Organization of the United States. This work led to the development of a genetically-manipulated microorganism that was the subject matter of a landmark decision from the Supreme Court of the United States that genetically engineered life forms are patentable. Dr. Chakrabarty has served as a consultant with the United Nations and was the founding member of a UNIDO Committee that proposed the establishment of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB) based in Trieste, Italy, New Delhi, India, and Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Chakrabarty has been a member of the Panel of Scientific Advisors, later called Council of Scientific Advisors, of ICGEB since its very inception. Dr. Chakrabarty has also been a member of the International Advisory Board of Chulabhorn Research Institute in Thailand, which is headed by the Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand.He was awarded the civilian Padma Shri award by the Government of India in 2007.

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Dr. Chakrabarty’s current research involves development of anticancer agents from microbial sources. As a Co-Founder of CDG Therapeutics Inc, he has developed candidate anticancer drugs such as p28, which has shown very little toxicity in 15 advanced stage cancer patients but significant beneficial effect, including partial and complete regression of tumors that were refractory to conventional drugs, in phase I human clinical trials in Chicago.

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Co-founder and CEO of leadXpro AG, a spin-out of the Paul Scherrer Institute (ETH domain, Switzerland) dedicated to discovery of new therapeutics using structure based drug discovery with a focus on membrane protein targets,20 years at Roche research from 1995 to 2015, Global Head and Principle Leader of discovery technologies with responsibility for structure based drug discovery, protein science, assay development and HTS, corporate compound library, stem cell platform,Guest Professor at the University of Basel in structural biology, author of >75 paper and lecturer at conferences, 8 patents in areas of technology, discovery and formulation of drug substances,Study of physics, biochemistry, PhD in structural biology at EMBL Hamburg & Charité Berlin, Germany, postdoc at Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

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Discovery of new therapeutics using structure based drug discovery with a focus on membrane protein targets

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Juliana Chiruta has completed her PhD in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology and at the Department of Chemistry from The University of Adelaide.
She is currently employed as a Senior Member of the professional staff in the Faculty of Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of
Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She is an Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK) and a member of Higher Education Research Network

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Neveen Saleh has completed her PhD at age of 34 years from Ain Shams University and has got postdoctoral studies from Massachusetts, Amherst (UMASS) University in Nanotechnology, Chemistry department. She is now amicrobiological researcher in National organization for drug control and research. She has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals.

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Mahasen Wadi completed the PhD from AL Neelain University , Medical Microbiology. Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences 2010 Khratoum Sudan. MSc. University of Khartoum, Sudan. Medical Microbiology & Pharmacology 1987. She joined work at Dar ALUloom University, College of Medicine, Riyadh , Saudi Arabia August 2014, She Worked at the central research laboratory Khartoum , Sudan. She joined work at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh 1988, Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, and Medical Microbiology

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antimicrobial activity of Sudanese bee honey.

Organizing Committee - Molecular Microbiology 2018

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Mihai Caramihai is a University Professor at University POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania. His work now focuses on IT application in life sciences, more specific in the biotechnology area (cell metabolic pathways modelling, bio-process modelling, control and optimization, etc)
Before coming to University POLITEHNICA, Prof Caramihai has been involved in the research area, at the Research Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bucharest. He is member of 4 Royal Societies and more than 20 professional associations worldwide.
M. Caramihai earned a bachelor of science in (bio)informatics and a doctorate in IT from the POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest

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Dr. Mohamed S. Salama graduated from Ain Shams University (ASU) and was the top of list of graduates. He was hired by ASU in 1979, he got his M.Sc. in 1985 and his Ph.D in 1990 when he travelled to USA on a Peace Fellowship in the University of California, (Riverside).He stayed in the USA as a postdoctoral fellow till 1994. He was promoted a full professor in 2001. In Ain Shams University he was the director of the Central Lab.of the Faculty of Science in 2001-2003, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2003-2007, Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2007-2009, Vice-President of ASU in 2009-2011, Acting President of ASU in 2011. In 1994 he won the State Prize in biological sciences from the National Academy of Science (Egypt). In the same year he won the Award of The Third World Academy of Science, TWAS (Italy) for young scientists. In 2015 he won Ain Shams Prize of Honor.
Along his career he had many certificates of honor red in the nationally and internationally. He published over 100 scientific research papers, he has 4 patents in the field of molecular biology. He has long history of scientific collaboration with national and international institutes and scientists. He established molecular biology labs and research units in many places in Egypt and organized over 100 training workshops in molecular biology from 1994 up till now.

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Dr. Musallam is the Head of Clinical Genetic, Genetic counseling & Educational department of the national genetic center (NGC) at the Royal Hospital. He is a Member of the GCC genetic evaluation & assessment committee. He was awarded a certificate of merit from the government of Oman in the year 2011 for identifying and characterizing a novel disorder of inherited childhood blindness (named FHONDA syndrome) and published in 2013. He established and is the chief organizer of the first core Genetic Counseling course in Oman and the Gulf region. Dr Musallam is also a regular reviewer for the Oman Medical Journal.

Organizing Committee - World Microbiologists 2018

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Dr. Ananda M. Chakrabarty serves as Senior Science Advisor of Amrita Therapeutics Limited. Dr. Chakrabarty is a Amrita’s Senior Science Mentor and Global Domain Expert relating to how bacterial proteins effectively combat cancers, parasites, and viruses in the human body. Dr. Chakrabarty serves as a Distinguished University Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University Of Illinois College Of Medicine, and advises senior officials in the U.S. and abroad on policies relating to biotechnology and related technology transfer. He is a Consultant to the United Nations. In 1980, Dr. Chakrabarty’s genetically modified Pseudomonas bacteria became the first genetically-engineered organism to gain a patent, as a result of the Supreme Court decision in Diamond vs. Chakrabarty. Dr. Chakrabarty undertook pioneering biotechnology research into the therapeutic potential for protein products of bacteria, both at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and on behalf of CDG Therapeutics, a U.S. biotechnology start-up company engaged in clinical cancer research. Dr. Chakrabarty has led path-breaking research into the therapeutic qualities of protein products of bacteria. His work includes recent studies with water-soluble products of pathogenic bacteria demonstrating significant promise for cancer therapies, effective against HIV/AIDS, malaria and perhaps even tuberculosis. Dr. Chakrabarty was a part of the Advisory Committee that resulted in creation of the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Trieste, Italy and rejoined the ICGEB Advisory Board. Dr. Chakrabarty has numerous publications and has received many notable awards for his contributions to biotechnology, including Padma Shri in 2007, one of the Indian Government’s highest civilian honors.

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1996-present: Director, WM Keck Center for Transgene Research, University of Notre Dame. 1983-present: Kleiderer/Pezold Professor of Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame. 1979-2002: Dean, College of Science, University of Notre Dame. 1977-1983: Professor, University of Notre Dame. 1974-1977: Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame. 1970-1974: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame. 1968-1970: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University. 1968: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Iowa. 1964: B.S. University of Scranton. 2006-present: Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine.

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The interests of Professor Castellino\'s laboratory involve the structure, function and activation of proteins that participate in blood coagulation and blood clot dissolution. The in vivo mechanisms of the roles of these proteins in these processes are being addressed through in vivo targeted gene-replacement approaches and corresponding in vitro structure-function studies on these genes and proteins are being studied by the most modern biophysical techniques, e.g., X-ray crystallography, NMR, etc. Most of these proteins exist in an inactive state in plasma and thus must be activated to enzymes to exhibit their functional properties. The molecular events involved in the activation and analysis of the concomitant structural changes that occur in the protein are investigated by modern biochemical techniques. Major tools of the laboratory involve cloning, mutagenesis and expression of variant recombinant proteins and individual protein domains, immunochemical studies of the proteins, as well as physical and chemical analysis of their solution structures. The properties of the proteins are then related to their functions. Another project receiving attention involves the structure-function relationships of small gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla)-containing peptides from marine cone snails that target the brain NMDA receptor. These peptides inhibit the flow of calcium into neuronal cells, this latter event being responsible for the neuropathology associated with stroke, epilepsy, Alzheimer\'s Disease, ALS, etc. The biochemical, pharmacological and neurobiological mechanisms of the actions of these peptides are under study. Peptide synthesis, receptor binding, molecular biological and electrophysiological tools are currently employed in this work. To determine the biological functions of genes encoding coagulation and clot-dissolving proteins in hemostasis, cancer, inflammation, wound healing, embryonic implantation and development, metastases, and athersclerosis, gene deletion and other gene targeting experiments are being performed in mice, in conjunction with phenotyping of these animals. Such studies are expected to provide important information on the development and progression of these disease states.

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Dr. Xi Yang is a Canada Research Chair in Infection and Immunity. He is working as a Professor in the departments of Medical Microbiology and Immunology of University of Manitoba, Canada. He is also extending his duties as a Chair of Promotion and Tenure committee in the department of Immunology. The research program in his laboratory focuses on the cellular and molecular basis of immune responses to allergens and infectious agents and on the development of immunoprophylactic approaches for allergy and infectious diseases.

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Dr.Rao is working as Professor & Head of Microbiology and Immunology, and Dean of students affairs in the Avalon University School of Medicine, Curacao.He is having 42 years of experience in the field of microbiology. He has published many research papers/articles in international journals.

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Immunology, Microbiology

Organizing Committee - Microbial Interactions 2018

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Inmaculada del Castillo is a Scientist at Azotic Technologies Ltd. She holds a PhD in Plant’s Microbiology by the University of Seville. Her main focus is the use of beneficial bacteria on agriculture and the impact of inoculants on the soil microbiome. She has studied the relationships established between bacteria through quorum sensing / quorum quenching mechanism, and conducted research on Microbial Ecology in different environments, agricultural and industrial, as a post-doc at the University of Seville (Spain) and at the University of Nottingham (UK)

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Inmaculada del Castillo main focus is the use of beneficial bacteria on agriculture and the impact of inoculants on the soil microbiome

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Reza Nassiri Dean of Global Health,Director of Institute of International Health ,Michigan State University, USA.He works on international public health issues and has expertise in global health education, research, policy and governance. He has made contributions in various fields of medical sciences including clinical investigation and health education. One the basis of his extensive experience and expertise in HIV/AIDS and TB, he developed Clinical Research Programs in Brazil, South Africa, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Mexico. The core foci of such programs are socio-cultural, bio-ethical determinant of HIV/AIDS and TB prevention, control, and intervention.

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His research interests focuses on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV/AIDS & TB, prevention and control of infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, community health, global health, and socio-ethical determinants of health.

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Professor Debabrata Biswas is a leading scientist at University of Maryland, USA. Debabrata Biswas completed PhD from University of Tokyo. Dr. Biswas’s research projects focused on the reduction of pre- and post-harvest levels of colonization and contamination these foodborne bacterial pathogens in foods specifically meat and meat products and development of vaccines that prevent colonization of animals by E. coli O157, C. jejuni and Salmonella enterica species which may reduce human gastrointestinal infections.

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Pathogens transmitted from animals to human via contaminated food and water cause up to 33 million cases (>50% of human infectious diseases) of reported illness each year in North America. Six bacterial species including Campylobacter jejuni, Enerohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), non-typhoid Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium perfringens andStaphylococcus aureus account for over one half of the illness.

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Junfeng James Liang completed his Ph.D.at NanKai University, China. He has published so many articles in journals in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology. His research works on Bacteria Responsive Materials for Bio-Fouling and Medical Device Infections and Nano-Technology Enabled Bacteria and Cancer Cell Sensing. Present he is working as professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

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Design and synthesis of various smart molecules and bioactive peptides; development of novel systems/method for targeted drug delivery. Biomaterials, Polymer Science

Biography

Spiros Paramithiotis graduated from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, in 1996. In 1998 he received a scholarship for post-graduate studies from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece and in 2002 he received the PhD degree in Food Microbiology from the Agricultural University of Athens. In 2003, he joined the Agricultural University of Athens, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Laboratory of Food Quality Control and Hygiene as a member of the scientific personnel where he works until today.
His research interests lie mainly in the field of food fermentations, with particular emphasis on microbial taxonomy, metabolism, physiology, symbiotic patterns and the underlying molecular mechanisms. He has participated in several research projects funded by the EU, the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology as well as food industries. He has edited the book entitled ‘Lactic Acid Fermentation of Fruits and Vegetables’ published by CRC Press, co-authored 48 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 28 book chapters, over 100 publications in national and international conference proceedings and has received more than 900 citations.

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His research interests lie mainly in the field of food fermentations, with particular emphasis on microbial taxonomy, metabolism, physiology, symbiotic patterns and the underlying molecular mechanisms.

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Professor Alexander A. Kamnev is a Leading Scientist at the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saratov, Russia). His current research has been focused on the application of spectroscopic techniques in studying biomolecules, biocomplexes, supramolecular structures and microbial cells; spectroscopic detection of biospecific interactions using functionalized plasmonic nanoparticles; bioanalytical applications of vibrational (FTIR, Raman) and Mössbauer (nuclear gamma-resonance) spectroscopies. Professor Kamnev has published over a hundred papers in peer-refereed international journals, has been regularly involved as an organizer of, and as an invited/plenary lecturer at a number of international conferences and in refereeing manuscripts for many scientific journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, RSC, ACS, etc.

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Amina Yousef Kandeel completed PhD from Mansoura University, medical school, Egypt at 2006 where she worked as lecturer of Medical microbiology and immunology. Currently she is microbiology consultant and director of infection control department in King Khaled general hospital , KSA. The research activities included different clinical microbiology and infection control subjects including molecular typing of resistant organisms, detection of resistance mechanisms and quality improvement projects in infection control practices. Member in Egyptian society of medical microbiology. She has published more than 15 papers in national and international journals.

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Ziad A.ElNasser completed his Ph.D. in Pathology and Microbiology from Brigham Young University, 1986. He has completed Bsc. in Medicine and Surgery from University Of Jordan, 1980. Present he is Clinical Pathologist, (Clinical Microbiology) King Abdulla University Hospital, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto Canada, Director of CISEPO (Canadian International Science Exchange program ,Jordan Branch) and Associate Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology.

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Abdul Haque completed his Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Osaka, Japan (1994). He has published so many articles. Mainly his research focussing on Human Infectious Diseases, Human Enteric Pathogens, Molecular Diagnostics, Conjugate Vaccines Development and Molecular aspects of virulence and drug resistance of human enteric pathogens. Present he is working as Dean Health Sciences, The University of Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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